TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1932, Page 3

TECHNICAL EDUCATION

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anntjajl ooxfebence. COS&IENOI<jS TG-‘MGTIItOW

v>vr ' ’ Sept. 6,

Ediicatipnists. from all parts of the Dominion are’ assembling in Welling- . ton'.for the annual .conference^. of the Teelinicar Association . of JISeW 2eaia,nd‘ which will bo. opened tp-niorrow. ’ . ■ Of tlie twenty-five remits which ap- . jx-ar pn the order paper, almost a third of deal' with' une'mpfoyment among young .people. ...Pro-., posals 'wiil b© placed before the con-, ference/ in the interests of yo.uths of. 16' years’ and overf who have either } "left "■ school lack or sire merely waiting at school until a cfianoe of employment arrives. ' .. The decisions wifl.be communicated., t<f' |he" 'Government,' by a- deputation,' at the conclusion of the ses- , •fv; - •• ■ ■•• 'y ;■" '■- ■

1 sions. .; ... -.... ~..,v.,..'. ~, ' , ; ' 'Other'’ important /remits concern administration «ndl free place conditions, and .finance. ,

’ Tho conference is expected- to< occupy at Jeast two days.

1 ' : pRiSIDENT’S MESSAGE

tn a‘ message to delegates,:' Mr J. H. ./Ejaeid, of .’lnvtevoargill, president of ; the association, statCsf rt K is now two sinc4" our * last' meeting in ContefehcC, »h*d ihufeh* his happened ih the 1 ediicationaU' 'world \ since ‘ "then. Whin we laSt' met a great • part .of our tmie 'was spent in- 'discussion of the ; ttecess Educatibh Report, the’ issue, of which .I then .jdesoribed as •ah event ,of .hv^t-rate' significance in our edhcatibnial' ahhals-’x.!, believe that that eirpressed the geheraij feeling at- the time; -now the report js fapidly passing into the: lfmbo of things forgotten. .Since tha| tjme we ■have seen a. change of Government, arid the’passing of the Einance'Acts •and’ the Na-tionial’’; Expenditure. Adjostment Act—all events vdth a direct bearing on our. work. as educational administrators. ' ‘'More significant evert that the act-' haf changes is the feeling of , unrest and dis<}ufet ias to changes still ih prepaiihfion or under consideration. There have been indjcations that odr free place system is in grave danger, and that the system' of control . % local boards may also be jeittisonefl. 1 ‘An* even ’ more disquieting’ sign of our timps is the acute problem of'plad-; ing adolescents, in employment-or of bridging the gap between school' and work. In . these circumstances it behovOb us-all, ah voluntary or profesSiorihl Wofk-ete' s in ; oducaMbW, to. • earnest* cdnsidehation 'to the of times', and! to- offer out- best help ’jihb, ■ withafities-.'.-m'-bontfel.' of ,'our systefn: : ; Tt; is to "he: hoped that siich as we may offer will bO' accepted :in fHe : sioirit Of cOopefation that ip noitessary' for the ’best resultev” 1